In Watermelon Sugar

discussed in biography

...them from the moral consequences of their actions. Yet much of Brautigan’s work is concerned with death, the passage of time, and human attempts, however futile, at stemming time’s flow. In Watermelon Sugar (1968) is about life in iDEATH, a self-sufficient, complacent commune that is surrounded by “the Forgotten Works,” the obsolete remnants of a destroyed...